Lusting for London: Australian Expatriate Writers at the Hub of Empire, 1870-1950 - Paperback

by P. Morton (Author)

This book examines the flight of young Australian writers to London in the decades before and after Federation in 1901. Peter Morton studies how their careers were shaped by shifting their country of residence, the expatriate experience, and how the loss of these expatriates affected the evolving literary culture of Australia.

Author Biography

PETER MORTON Associate Professor of English at Flinders University, Australia.